Image by: Nuno Pinheiro Following posts on specific work being done on Oxygen, this post is going to try to go beyond the manifest work and look at the bigger picture driving it. The motivation for…
A dislike of minimalistic interfaces is not the only reason that I am using twenty-plus-year-old styling (older than Oxygen, even) on a DE of the same vintage, but it is one minor reason.
The largest one is probably the lack of churn. I don’t have to relearn what things look like or how controls function every few years (or where settings have migrated to, or how to accomplish random-obscure-thing-I-might-need-to-do-once-a-year). It lets me get on with whatever I sat down at the computer to do in the first place, which was almost certainly not tinkering with the DE.
It’s also light on resources, since it dates to the days when a single core and 1GB RAM was considered a pretty decent system.
(Note that TDE, which is what I am using, is still well-maintained—it’s just that the people working on it consider keeping the original look and feel to be one of their goals.)
A dislike of minimalistic interfaces is not the only reason that I am using twenty-plus-year-old styling (older than Oxygen, even) on a DE of the same vintage, but it is one minor reason.
I am curious about what are your major reasons ?
The largest one is probably the lack of churn. I don’t have to relearn what things look like or how controls function every few years (or where settings have migrated to, or how to accomplish random-obscure-thing-I-might-need-to-do-once-a-year). It lets me get on with whatever I sat down at the computer to do in the first place, which was almost certainly not tinkering with the DE.
It’s also light on resources, since it dates to the days when a single core and 1GB RAM was considered a pretty decent system.
(Note that TDE, which is what I am using, is still well-maintained—it’s just that the people working on it consider keeping the original look and feel to be one of their goals.)